This is utterly amazing

danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
edited May 2004 in Hardware
This is what happens when I don't pay attention for nearly a year to what motherboards are out there. I suddenly start looking for motherboards (sparked by a class project where we had to configure 6 computers for a doctors office and had to have specific hardware - we didn't actully build it, we just gave a presentation), and the only motherboard that I can find (on newegg) with 4 IDE ports is a SOYO SY-KT400 DRAGON Ultra (Platinum Edition) with the KT400 Chipset, (which is ugly looking with its silver PCB), all others just have 2 IDE and 2 SATA ports.

What happen to the rest of the boards?

Why don't they produce more 4 IDE port motherboards, and is this a way to force us to SATA? I have 3 hard drives that are all IDE, and all maxtors, 60GB, 2x 120GB, 8MB specials (identical models) in RAID 0 (going strong since January with no problems)

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Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    I've had plenty of boardss with 4 ide's... the second two are usually for RAID configurations though, but can usually be only used on IDE HDD's and not CD-ROM's or anything else.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited May 2004
    Times change, Danball, and the mobo manufacturers move along. With that said, you still aren't out of luck though. You can get PATA>SATA adapters for your drives and run RAID on the SATA ports with them. I'm using an Abit Serillel 2 adapter with a WD 80 gig JB drive on my IC7-G and it works flawlessly.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2004
    I also run my 80 Gb Maxtor off the SATA on my NF7-S. If I had another cable I would have the other HDD on the SATA controller as well.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Hey Dan, why would you need 4? Are you going to run 8 drives? If you needed to run that many drive I would get a PCI controler anyway.
    The only reason for IDE ports is the optical drives, the converters work just fine.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2004
    He probably wants to have each HDD on its own port. Easier to transfer files then.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited May 2004
    He could go Intel and get an IC7-G, which will let him have 4 SATA ports plus both ide channels.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited May 2004
    Intel.... Yuck. Yes, I do want the hard drives on seperate channels for faster performance.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    He probably wants to have each HDD on its own port. Easier to transfer files then.

    True, but the prime reason for segregating drives, once you get to the speeds we are now at, is to put like speed drives together on a channel, for IDE. The edge you get by having each drive on a seperate channel, unless they are on seperate controller also, is actually not that big in a percentage of greater effectiveness. My IC7-Max3 has embedded IDE RAID also, but the RAID can be set up to be for non-RAID IDE HD storage also. So, if you run the HDs except for BOOT HD on the IDE RAID and leave RAID OFF, you can have discrete drives per channel and have the boot HD on a seperate controller circuit for bussing.

    Isolate out the removables to different channels from the storage HDs, and isolate boot HD from all those. 3 channels is enough, 4 probably overkill unless you want to use older HDs that are slower also or have three different speeds of mech fro HD in one box.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited May 2004
    John_D wrote:
    True, but the prime reason for segregating drives, once you get to the speeds we are now at, is to put like speed drives together on a channel, for IDE. The edge you get by having each drive on a seperate channel, unless they are on seperate controller also, is actually not that big in a percentage of greater effectiveness. My IC7-Max3 has embedded IDE RAID also, but the RAID can be set up to be for non-RAID IDE HD storage also. So, if you run the HDs except for BOOT HD on the IDE RAID and leave RAID OFF, you can have discrete drives per channel and have the boot HD on a seperate controller circuit for bussing.

    Isolate out the removables to different channels from the storage HDs, and isolate boot HD from all those. 3 channels is enough, 4 probably overkill unless you want to use older HDs that are slower also or have three different speeds of mech fro HD in one box.

    Oh, the Highpoint controller can be set up for non-raid use as well
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